“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” For a moment I didn’t pay much attention to the large insect buzzing around me. It was one of those gentle spring days and ...

Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico residents are advised to be on the lookout for venomous male tarantulas, who will be fanning out from now until October. Some arachnid and wildlife experts have called ...

There’s a market for everything, tarantula tourism included. These creepy crawlers have become a sort of destination mascot for La Junta, a small town set about three hours southeast of Denver. From ...

Tarantula mating season occurs in the fall, primarily in southwestern states, although Texas brown tarantulas are also found in Missouri. Male tarantulas wander in search of females, while females ...

If you’re hiking or camping in the arid Southwest and West in the next few months, get ready for what could be the experience – or fright – of a lifetime. Across the United States, in California, ...

Texas brown tarantulas will soon be roaming Missouri and Kansas looking for mates. Jeffery Seim The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks The tarantula crossed the road, and it wasn’t just to get to ...

May through July is peak tarantula season in Austin. In the early summer months, the large hairy spiders emerge from their underground burrows and crawl around Texas in search of mates. Austin-area ...